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Old 10th Nov 2016, 18:40
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Mike Flynn
 
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Spirit Of Artemis

I agree with Airpolice and others that it is time to move on.

We know and have established that the so called solo voyages were actually not solo as per emulating Lady Mary Heath and Amy Johnson.

Both expeditions were remarkable for the late 20's and early 30's and no woman has ever bettered their records even with modern technology.

If the Air League and the Honourable Company of Air Pilots want to give paper awards for the recipients cloakroom walls who cares?

The focus surely now must be on Boeing and Artemis who milked this highly funded PR execise via misleading the global press.

The word that stands out in headlines was SOLO!

Can we now direct all effort to Boeing and Artemis making a statement?

They funded these multi million pound PR stunts that crashed in Arizona.

They have refused to comment.

There is now justification to open a wiki on the Spirit Of Artemis?

Let us address Boeing and their sponsorship of what was to become a PR disaster.

On 22 February, 2016 it was announced Dennis Muilenburg would succeed James McNerney as Boeing's chairman.

He of course had no input to the Boeing name on the Spirit of Artemis which just a few months later crashed in Arizona.

Surely he must have some sort of comment on how their sponsorship transpired to the point of the aircraft being wrecked in Arizona and their name being associated with a so called solo expedition that was little more than a PR lie?

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